The Museum of the History of Kielce is based in a heritage-listed building at 4 Świętego Leonarda Street, where a museum of the Kielce branch of the Polish Sightseeing Society has operated since 1913. The museum collects, preserves, compiles and provides access to museum collections on the city's history from the early Middle Ages to the present. A permanent exhibition is devoted to the history of Kielce. Part of this exhibition focuses on Kielce's Jews, who made up a third of the city's population before the Holocaust.
The statutory mission of the Museum of the History of Kielce is to collect artefacts and documentary materials relating to history, art, ethnography, archaeology, numismatics, medals, phaleristics, sphragistics, vexillology, cartography, militaria, animate and inanimate nature, sound recording and audiovisual techniques, technology and literature connected with the economic, social, political and cultural life of Kielce and the Świętokrzyskie region from the earliest times to the present. Part of the collection consists of documents, photographs, works of art and everyday objects related to the Kielce Jewish community.
